CVE-2017-5090

medium

Published 2017-10-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Insufficient Policy Enforcement in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.115 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via a crafted domain name containing a U+0620 character, aka Apple rdar problem 32458012.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

macOS Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endExcluding":"59.0.3071.115"}`	`59.0.3071.115`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.